Welcome
Citrus County, Florida – The Key Training Center, a private nonprofit Florida 501(c) (3) organization, is dedicated to serving adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. Since 1966, the Key Center has offered “Kindness, Love, Dignity, and Respect” to individuals and their families. We offer a myriad of programs and services to meet the social, vocational, residential/housing and advocacy needs of Citrus County and West Central Florida. Funds to support the Center are derived from Voluntary Health Agency Grants and assistance at the Federal, State and Local Government levels... together with private/public contributions.
The Key Center is the only facility of its kind in Citrus County and the surrounding areas providing vitally needed community based services to nearly 300 developmentally disabled adult citizens. The Key Center has served over twelve hundred (1,200) developmentally disabled citizens since its inception in 1966. Program participants are accepted and services are offered regardless of age, race, religion, color, creed, sex, nationality, or ability to pay. The Key Center takes great pride in being viewed as a leader and innovator at the Federal, State and Local level in the delivery of community based services to the developmentally disabled.
A Place Where Miracles Happen Every Day!
The Annual Run for the Money
 The unique and exciting "Run for the Money" is the major annual fundraising event of the Key Training Center. Each July since 1976, this grueling 180-mile run (the equivalent of seven Boston Marathons) has started from the Capitol steps in Tallahassee on a Monday and has ended the following Saturday in Lecanto with a huge celebration. To set the "Run for the Money" excitement week in motion, the celebrity dinner auction was added in 1982. This popular dinner auction is one of the noted events that take place in Citrus County and is associated with unique live and silent auction items. To help bring the Key Center story to the airwaves, five years later, a live telethon entered Citrus County homes. This telethon is a great way to showcase local talent and more importantly educate the community on the vital role and work that takes place each day at the Key Center. Read More Here.........
Key Center Announces “Walk for the Money”
Each year runners start from the Capital steps in Tallahassee and run 180 miles to the Key Training Center’s Lecanto campus to draw attention to the challenges that adults with developmental disabilities face and overcome each day. Over the years, people have expressed their desire to help by “walking” stating that they could not run 180 miles, but they could walk a mile or two. So this year, for the first time ever, the Key Center is holding a “Walk for the Money.” Read Press Release Here....
Key Center Holds Arts and Crafts Fair
Each year runners start from the Capital steps in Tallahassee and run 180 miles to our Lecanto campus to draw attention to the challenges that adults with developmental disabilities face and overcome each day. The “Run” culminates with a finish at the Key Center’s Lecanto Campus with a jubilant celebration. This year, the Key Center is inviting artisans and crafters to come, display, and sell their wares as part of this joyful celebration. Read Press release Here....
KEY CENTER BRINGS BLUES BROTHERS BACK
Lecanto, Florida, June 12, 2009 – It’s red carpet time again at The Key Training Center. Everyone is invited to “Reach for the Stars” with a fun-filled evening of unique entertainment featuring the classic Hollywood glamour of the legendary Blues Brothers. Back by popular demand, the Jake and Elwood Blues Revue is the only Blues Brothers act in the world sanctioned by the Belushi Estate and Dan Aykroyd. The 27th Annual Run for the Money Dinner Auction will be held on Friday, July 17th and promises great food by Outback Steakhouse of Inverness, a dinner show, and unique live and silent auction items. Read Press Release Here.....
IN The News:
Key Training Center opens new thrift store in Crystal River
Submitted by Robby Douglas on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 9:23pm.
Housed in the old Suncoast Furniture store.
The Key Training Center on Thursday opened a new thrift store in Homosassa.
The store is housed in the old Suncoast Furniture, Inc., building at 820 S. Suncoast Boulevard in Homosassa.
The store joins two others, one in Inverness and another in Lecanto.
Thrift stores are used as vocational training opportunities for Key Center consumers in addition to providing needed operating revenue. The thrift stores provide a place to shop that benefits both program participants and the community.
Through a variety of vocational training opportunities, consumers make choices and learn valuable skills and develop positive work habits while earning an income determined appropriate with their abilities and productivity. Consumers receive wages based on their ability, productivity and the prevailing wage for similar jobs (based on time studies).
Thrift store vocational training opportunities include activities associated with retail operations. Consumers gain experience as customer service clerks, cashiers, merchandisers and housekeepers. Job coaches monitor and assist consumers.
Donation Distribution Center vocational training opportunities include activities associated with clothing donations such as sorting, hanging, and folding. Key Center staff helps consumers function in a vocational setting as independently as possible.
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